annuities

After nearly a decade where the United Kingdom has been the gold standard for retirement savings policy, it is about to take a step that it may regret.

I’ve been pretty critical of many annuities in the past, but there is one out there that might be worth a serious look. It’s called a Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract (QLAC) — yes, that’s a mouthful. Recent technical changes to this annuity OK’d by the U.S. Treasury offer a partial solution to…

In California, independent insurance agent Glenn Neasham was sentenced to 90 days in jail for selling a complicated annuity plan to an 83-year-old woman who shows signs of dementia. It's a case that has elder abuse advocates cheering, but which sends "shivers down the spines" of American insurance agents.

If you give to charitable organizations, you definitely want to read this post. There are some important changes being made to how some charitable contributions are treated that can potentially affect you.

The Washington Post has a good piece giving folks tools to help them begin to build their retirement income; fewer folks are retiring with pensions and Social Security just doesn't cut the majority of a person's living expenses. The piece goes into depth about annuities -- how they differ and which…